IC99389: PCOM: 5250 DDS WINDOW DOES NOT DISPLAY SOME CHARACTERS AT 6.0.8 REFRESH LEVEL

Personal Communications 6.0.12
Personal Communications 6.0.13
Personal Communications 6.0.15

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Env: Personal Communications V6.0.7 and v6.0.8 5250 connection
  
  The customer has a problem about 5250 DDS Window.
  Their 5250 application displays calendar by DDS Window.
  However, when they try to display the calendar, the character
  in the calendar breaks by the cursor position.
  I can recreate this issue in our internal system.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: All 5250 display session users hosting DDS   *
  *                 applications                                 *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: When a DDS window is created, SBCS      *
  *                      characters in the DDS window may be     *
  *                      displayed incorrectly.                  *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  Under a DBCS (double byte character set) environment, when a
  DDS window is created at particular positions, SBCS (single
  byte charcter set) characters in the DDS window may be
  displayed incorrectly. In other words, the SBCS characters are
  treated as DBCS characters.
  
  Each position in the Presentation Space is identified to be a
  DBCS or SBCS field based on whether the DBCS plane, for that
  position, is NULL or not NULL. If the position happens to be a
  Field Attribute (identifier of a field), the DBCS plane may
  contain non-NULL data. However, Field Attribute is a non-DBCS
  entity and should be treated as SBCS.
  

Problem conclusion

• PCSLT52.DLL code changes have been made to treat field
  attribute as a SBCS field, even though DBCS plane is not NULL.
  
  Fix scheduled for PCOM 6.0.12 Refresh Pack
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Modules/Macros

• PCSLT52
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  PCOMM V5 COMBO-

• Fixed component ID

  5639I700J

Applicable component levels

• R601 PSY

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